{"id":212095,"date":"2026-03-19T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212095\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:51:07","slug":"utep-drops-cesar-chavez-day-from-holiday-schedule-adds-good-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212095\/","title":{"rendered":"UTEP drops C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Day from holiday schedule, adds Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The University of Texas at El Paso is removing C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Day from its holiday schedule after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed state agencies not to observe the holiday in response to recently published assault allegations against C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n<p>To comply with the directive, UTEP will no longer include C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Day, March 27, 2026, on its holiday schedule. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the university will add Good Friday, April 3, 2026, so the 2025-26 calendar maintains the same number of holidays.<\/p>\n<p>UTEP said faculty who do not have classes scheduled on March 27 but otherwise would have should designate the day as a Spring Study Day for students. <\/p>\n<p>The university will remain open, and faculty will have broad discretion to offer and organize extra instruction, group study and office hours for students on March 27.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/city-renames-march-31-holiday-to-community-labor-heritage-day-after-chavez-allegations?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso renames C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Day as Community &amp; Labor Heritage Day city holiday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The University of Texas at El Paso is removing C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Day from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-212095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}